Mesebetsi Labour Force Survey 1999-2000

South Africa, 1999 - 2000

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zaf-fafo-mlfs-1999-2000-v1

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Norwegian Institute for Applied Social Science (Fafo), South African Department of Labour

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occupation in main job (isco major gp.) (b18occ1)

Data file: Mesebetsi LFS1999-2000 RSI_v1

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Valid: 4907

Invalid: 5873

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

loc_start_pos: 396

loc_end_pos: 397

Width: 2

Range: 1 - 99

Format: Numeric

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Value	Category	Cases
1	managers and senior officials	170	3.5%
2	professionals	383	7.8%
3	technicians & associate professionals	224	4.6%
4	clerical	315	6.4%
5	service and sales workers	458	9.3%
6	skilled agricultural & fishery workers	405	8.3%
7	craft and trades workers	478	9.7%
8	machine operators & assemblers	369	7.5%
9	elementary occupations	2099	42.8%
10	armed forces	6	0.1%
99	dont know/ no answer	0	0%
Sysmiss		5873

Warning: these figures indicate the number of cases found in the data file. They cannot be interpreted as summary statistics of the population of interest.

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